Seina Irie, who won the gold medal in the women's featherweight boxing at the Tokyo Olympics, won her second consecutive victory at the All Japan Championships, which was her last competition.

Irie, who won the first gold medal for a Japanese woman in the women's featherweight class at the Tokyo Olympics last year, will enter the graduate school of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology next spring and will be involved in research on her favorite frog. It was the last competition.



On the 27th, the finals of each weight class were held at the venue in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, and Irie faced her junior at Nippon Sport Science University, Saki Yoshizawa.



From the beginning of the match, Irie kept her distance with her signature step work and seized the flow with her signature left jab.



In the third and final round, both fighters punched each other saying, “I want to finish with a boxer-like fight.” As a result of the decision, Irie won and won the tournament for the second time in a row.



Looking back, Irie said, "It was a happy 9 minutes. I was able to play comfortably with my juniors from the same university. I was.



After that, she said about her future, "I will do my research in graduate school and devote myself to becoming a good frog person, so please take care of the frog." I was mouthing it.

Mother Mami ``It was a happy boxer life''

Mami, Irie's mother from Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, rushed to the venue to support her and watched her daughter's final match.



Mami said, "I'm glad I finished without any injuries. I didn't mention hard times or hard times, but I think there were many times. But I'm happy that I won the gold medal and became an athlete who received encouragement from everyone. As a parent, I think it was my life as a boxer."



On top of that, she said, "She says she wants to do a job that protects frog ecosystems and other creatures, so I want her to work hard to open up new paths." was sending

Yonago Tottori, watching junior children watching their retirement match

At the boxing gym in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, where Seina Irie has been attending since she was in the second grade of elementary school, about 20 people, including junior children, watched the retirement match online.



Every time Irie's punch hit, the people who gathered banged the megaphone with the feeling of cheering from the locals.



After the Tokyo Olympics, local elementary and junior high school students who admire Irie have joined this gym one after another, and 44 people are attending, an increase of more than 10 people from before the Olympics.



Ayumu Katayose, a first-year junior high school student who started boxing last fall and had Irie sparring, said, "I was very excited to see him punch even when his opponent attacked me. I will do my best. I want to practice every day and become as strong as Seina-san."

Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Namiki also advances to the final

Tsukimi Namiki, a bronze medalist in the women's flyweight division at the Tokyo Olympics, advanced to the final in the women's light flyweight division at the Paris Olympics two years later.



She took the initiative from start to finish, throwing combination punches with her body from a distance against an opponent taller than her, and won by decision.



Namiki said, "This time I wanted to do boxing, which uses my legs well, and I was able to do that. Next year will be an important year for the Olympics, so I want to make it a year for boxing." .



Regarding Seina Irie, who is two years younger than her and retired from active duty, she said, "I honestly feel like I'm a younger sister and feel lonely, but I want you to enjoy your own way. I was talking.